Steve Chia

With all respect Steve Chia and NSP CEC, you and your CEC have taken the narrow and disregarded the wide. The narrow refers to your interests in your own party … and to an extent, your followers. The wide refers to the current political situation that Singapore and Singaporeans find themselves in today. All I can say is that this will most likely backfire and set your party back to a stage where it might not be recoverable.

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You have been my friend for close to 30 years. I have known you since school days. I know you to be a good person. You have been a volunteer all your life. You do not need to win election to serve the people. You do not need to sit in parliament to pass laws to serve the people. You do not need to be anti-PAP to serve the people. Be your good self Steve and rise to the occasion to be a better man- to bless others with your intellect, wits and wealth.

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I am not in support of smearing but, specific to Steve Chia, is it not despicable to sabotage Opposition unity to lobby NSP to rescind an earlier announcement of not contesting in Macpherson? Is it not despicable to walk out on his Pioneer SMC, to contest in another SMC without first addressing his potential voters why. Although I do not support smearing, I somehow think this is the result of his own doing.

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On Monday (17 Aug), the Central Executive Council of NSP decided to support its member Steve Chia’s wish to contest MacPherson SMC, resulting in a 3-cornered fight against WP and PAP. NSP Acting Secretary-General Hazel Poa strongly disagreed with the CEC’s decision. However, she was outvoted and hence decided to resign from the party. She announced her resignation from NSP to the press on Wednesday

The Trolls have won. With this notice, I am announcing that I will not be standing for this coming ‪#‎GE2015‬ and will not be contesting in ‪#‎MacPhersonSMC‬ anymore. It is with anguish and deep sadness that my lifelong ambition to be the people's spokesman in Parliament ends today.

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Our only hope now is that WP will reciprocate our strong support in Pipit, Circuit, Merpati and Balam Road by fielding a strong quality candidate who is not plucked from previous failed attempt of other GRCs and certainly not their funeral project manager who is loathed by the superstitious Chinese old folks here.

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Read the news about NSP decision to contest in Macpherson SMC. I think this is a reasonable request from NSP since they already graciously gave up contesting in Marine Parade to give WP a better chance. Especially after WP insisted on contesting in Marine Parade, some quarters of the Opposition have grumbled about WP's arrogance and high-handedness in their handling of the horse trading meetings. This is a good chance for WP to show they are a constructive leader of the Opposition movement.

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In a Facebook post this evening, long time opposition leader Steve Chia from the National Solidarity Party (NSP) has written about his party's decision to contest MacPherson Single Member Constituency (SMC) and why he finds it frustrating to work with the WP for a compromise over the ward.